food for thought

I've been wondering for some time now having spent a bit more time with Ciheng and Ciyi in Cambodia; are children below the age of 7 able to speak in a hushed tone? Haha.

I first thought of this when they were told to lower their volume, but they couldn't! Although they tried to talk softer, they were still using their normal tone of voice, not the "hush" type, and it was close to shouting. Then a few days ago, this thought came back when I saw them again, with the addition of Yirong. Again they were asked to lower their volume but they couldn't! It's as if their young bodies have yet mastered the ability to vary their volume.

They're so full of energy, so pure and believe completely in God's faithfulness. Often it is because the more I know, the less I believe :(



I’ve been reading a book and I think the author puts it quite nicely about emotions. How do people get to write like that!

… how close happiness and sadness are. So closely knitted together. Such a thin line, a thread-like divide that in the midst of emotions, it trembles, blurring the territory of exact opposites… how quickly a moment of love is snapped away to a moment of hate… of how love and war stand upon the very same foundations. How, in my darkest moments, my most fearful times, when faced, became my bravest. Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence… How similar emotions are… how quickly comfort can shift to awkwardness. How in the very second you reach a dead end, moments when you are convinced you know exactly where you’re going is altered. A realization in less than a second. A flicker.

Well, the death of Michael Jackson is big news, many of his fans around the world will definitely mourn for him, he is somewhat a legend right? That's what the media label him as. Do people only become legends after they die? He will be remembered for many years, 10 years, surely. 50, some would still know his name. One century later, maybe if someone googles him. Two or three centuries later, very slim chance a random person on the street would know his name. I thank God, for His name is known from eternity to eternity. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will never pass away.

Ok, I've made an agreement with myself that I must start exercising again. Of course the intensity wouldn't be close to that of my ns days but at least I hope to maintain my IPPT standard, which is very hard to achieve with the state I’m in now :( So James, 一起加油吧！